2016-03-11bloomberg.com

The 2006-2009 housing slump reduced wealth by $7 trillion. Since then, the value of homeowners' equity in real estate has more than doubled from a low in the first quarter of 2009, a Federal Reserve report today showed. What's more, housing wealth is poised to reach a new record as early as the second quarter, say economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Pantheon Macroeconomics Ltd.

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For all the gains, the recovery in home equity has been uneven and narrower than in the 2002-2006 housing boom, said William Emmons, senior economic adviser at the St Louis Fed's Center for Household Financial Stability.

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"The wealth from housing has shifted from a broad swath to more concentration among families who are older, better educated, higher income, white and increasingly Asian, and who live more along the coastal areas," Emmons said.



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